See some of the best photos of supernovas – the explosive deaths of stars. Skip to main content. ... Astronomers capture incredible 1st image of a dead star that exploded twice.

CHARA Array false-color image of Polaris from April 2021 (main) and stock image of Ursa Minor, with Polaris at the tip of the tail (inset). The CHARA image reveals large bright and dark spots on ...

Astronomers have taken a superdetailed, zoomed-in photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud's "behemoth star." The stunning image, which is the first of its kind from outside the Milky Way, shows that ...

This image from ESO's New Technology Telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile shows the Herbig-Haro object HH 46/47 as jets emerging from a star-forming dark cloud.

A star is the subject of a test photo used to align the mirrors of the James Webb Space Telescope, with galaxies and stars surrounding it. The first official science images from Webb's cameras ...

In the image, to the top right of center lies a distorted group of bright, blue and white stars, reports NASA. This area is called NGC 1741 and it’s actually two dwarf galaxies colliding.

James Webb Space Telescope unveils region with newborn star: See stunning photo A new cosmic image that the European Space Agency released in February as its "picture of the month" was made ...

[1/2] An undated handout image shows an artist's reconstruction of the star WOH G64, the first star outside our galaxy to be imaged in close-up. It is located at a staggering distance of over 160 ...

The two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140, shown here, produce shells of dust every eight years that look like ... More rings, as seen in this image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Each ring was ...